Neurology

Facility Features | The Team | How to Apply
Curriculum | Conferences | Benefits

The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Neurosciences program, in conjunction with the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, is committed to training future pediatric neurologists through our Pediatric Neurology Fellowship program at Children’s at Egleston and Children’s at Hughes Spalding.

Fellows participating in the program will get firsthand experience:

• Treating a large and diverse population of pediatric neurological diseases.
• Working in a variety of neurological subspecialty clinics, as well as inpatient and outpatient experience at our multiple campuses.

 Facility Features

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta—Children's at Egleston is a state-of-the-art facility and home to a new 330,000-square-foot expansion. Children’s at Hughes Spalding is a 20-bed inpatient care facility; the pediatric neurology fellow continuity clinic meets weekly at this hospital.
  
• Grady Memorial Hospital—Here, residents get firsthand experience with the entire spectrum of acute neurological disease. They also assume major responsibility for patient care during their adult neurology rotations, as well as inpatient consultations for the neonatal intensive care unit during pediatric rotations.
  
• Emory University Hospital—With more than 600 beds, Emory University Hospital serves as a tertiary referral center for serious and complicated neurologic illnesses. The Department of Neurology staffs an active inpatient service, a hospitalwide consultation service, an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and a Neurointensive Care Unit. The Epilepsy Division provides comprehensive services, including a newly renovated video/EEG monitoring unit and presurgical evaluation of complex seizure patients at this site. The Joint Commission-certified stroke service provides diagnostic evaluation and state-of-the-art treatment, supported by interventional neuroradiology and a newly renovated neurological intensive care unit.
  
• Emory-Children’s Center—The fellow spends the majority of outpatient pediatric neurology training time at the Emory-Children’s Center, which offers both general neurology and subspecialty neurology services with more than 7,000 outpatient visits last year. Multiple specialty clinics serve special patient populations including epilepsy, spasticity/baclofen, neuromuscular movement disorders and the Ketogenic Diet.

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 The Team

The Division of Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics currently has six pediatric neurologists and two nurse practioners with a variety of research interests. The neurology team’s multidisciplinary approach is supported by a multitude of pediatric professionals including:

• Neurosurgery
• Neuropsychology
• Psychiatry
• Neuroradiology
• Social work
• Child life specialists
• Pharmacists

As part of the team fellows:

• Work with a large and diverse population of children with a variety of neurological diseases, learning to treat acute emergencies, as well as care for chronic conditions.
• Become exposed to state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment of children with neurological disease, including epilepsy surgery, management of vagal nerve stimulators, baclofen pump management and pediatric neurophysiology.
• Receive education in all facets of adult neurology from a distinguished adult neurology faculty.
• Become the primary caretaker and leader of the inpatient neurology service, as well as in the fellows continuity clinic.
• Participate in daily medical rounds, as well as a variety of conferences with opportunities to teach and learn.

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 How to Apply

Applicants to the Pediatric Neurology Fellowship program must complete applications for both the Pediatric Residency program through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and the Neurology Fellowship application through the San Francisco Match. While there are two applications required, the Emory program is a continuous five-year training program.

If you have any questions or need additional information, contact:

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 Curriculum

PGY 1-2: In the first two years of training, the participant will be a resident with the Department of Pediatrics Residency Program.

PGY 3-4:During the PGY 3 year, the resident will transition to the Neurology program, completing six months of adult neurology wards at Grady Health System and Emory University Hospital and six months of inpatient pediatric neurology wards.

During the PGY 4 year, the neurology resident will choose six months of adult outpatient electives (sample below) in addition to six months of pediatric neurology inpatient wards.Most adult outpatient clinic electives are call free.

PGY 5:The PGY 5 year is reserved for elective rotations planned at the discretion of the fellow with input from the division chief. One month of child psychiatry must be completed during this year. The remaining 11 months can be used for a variety of electives within neurology such as neurophysiology, spasticity, epilepsy or neuromuscular. Through Emory University School of Medicine, rotations with other subspecialties, such as neurosurgery, genetics and neuro-oncology, can be arranged. The fellows are encouraged and supported in their efforts to pursue original research projects, which can be completed during research electives.

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 Conferences

• Adult Neurology Morning Report—A weekly conference every Tuesday and Thursday morning designed for residents to present and discuss with attending physicians any cases admitted overnight.
• Pediatric Neurology Journal Club—A weekly conference every Thursday for critical review of the latest research in pediatric neurology.
• Neurology Grand Rounds—Occurs each Friday morning with presentations by nationally recognized experts in neurology and related fields.
• Pediatric Grand Rounds—Occurs each Wednesday morning with presentations from local and national experts in a variety of areas of pediatric medicine. An additional grand round occurs each Thursday morning at the Grady Health System campus and is designed as a case presentation series.
• Neurophysiology Conference—Occurs weekly with rotating presentations from epilepsy, neuromuscular and sleep medicine.
• Epilepsy Surgery Conference—Pediatric and adult surgery cases are presented for evaluation each Friday morning with participation from the entire epilepsy surgery team, including neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neuropsychology.
• Neuromuscular Rounds—Occurs each week with a neuromuscular patient presentation from the pediatric or adult inpatient services.
• Combined conference—Occurs on a monthly basis with interesting or unknown case presentations. Includes participation from neurology, neuroophthamology, pathology, neurosurgery and neuroradiology.

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 Benefits

Salaries are competitive and congruent with postgraduate training experience. Further information regarding benefits, malpractice, moonlighting and other policies is available from the Office of Graduate Medical Education. In addition to the benefits provided by Emory University School of Medicine, the Department of Neurology provides discretionary funds for each resident for the purchase of textbooks and other educational materials, and to cover meeting-related travel expenses. The department also covers the cost of membership in the American Academy of Neurology for each resident, and provides several additional benefits, including a subscription to the journals Neurology and Continuum. In addition to the paid vacation provided by the university, the Division of Neurology provides an additional week of academic leave time annually to allow for resident participation in meetings and other scholarly activities.